July 6th, the Friday after Independence Day was a day full of activity here in Northern Michigan where I spend 6 weeks out of my summer. This week, of all the weeks of summer, is the one with the most activity and family for the majority of the people in my summer community. If you’re only able to head Up North once during the summer, this is the week you’d do it. My kids grew up going to “Club” which is our version of camp. Each summer the Friday of the 4th of July week is Service Project day for the campers. My wonderful niece Emma is a co-leader of the girls 11-12 age group. For their service project they decided to create cards to donate to a local senior living center so that they could send them out to their loved ones. Emma asked if I would help her with this project. I jumped at the chance! It was so fun to see the girls really enjoying themselves while creating the cards they were giving to the center. Twenty-five cards were made by these wonderful 11 girls. Here are some pictures of the cards and the sweet girls who made them.
All set and ready to get started!
The girls getting instructions from Emma.
Dropping off the cards at American House Senior Living
The girls sending off their handmade cards with love.
We had so much fun doing this! I hope I get to stamp with these girls in the future. I designed the cards to be easy for all of them to create with little to no instruction. They were able to create their cards by looking at my examples and referencing my instruction sheet as needed. I walked around encouraging them helping those that needs some clarifications. I would say it was a great success! Give these cards templates a try! You can use any supplies you have on hand! They are super simple and easy to create!
Happy Birthday Card Recipe:
Card base in Neutral 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
Solid Color Cardstock 5 1/4 x 4
DSP 5 x 3 3/4
Neutral Layer with Stamped Image: 4 x 2 1/2
You could use any sentiment or image stamp here.
This is a super easy card to create and the girls did a beautiful job on it. It had two sentiments stamped and allowed the images on the DSP to really shine.
Bird Birthday Card Recipe:
Card base in Neutral 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
Solid Color Cardstock layer 5 1/2 x 2
DSP layer 4 x 2 1/2 (approximate) Depending on the image on your DSP you could adjust the size of this layer.
Ribbon cut to go short ways around the solid color cardstock layer.
Butterfly image die cut and adhered to card front.
Sentiment stamp set.
Again this was a quick and cute card to create. We were a bit short on time to create these cards so I did pre-cut the butterfly for everyone. The sentiment was stamped directly to the card base.
Thank You Card Recipe:
Card base is a light shade 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
DSP layer 2 x 5 1/2
Neutral layer for image 3 1/2 x 2 3/4
Sentiment and image stamp set
Ribbon to go around short side of the DSP
This card was much more challenging for the girls to create but they still did a wonderful job. The were 6 steps to stamp this card. If you wanted to make this card but have fewer steps you could cut out the background image and the interior color of the flowers but I do think those steps really do add to the beauty of the card.
Hope Card Recipe
Soft Solid Color Cardstock for the base 5 1/2 x 4 1/4
DSP 3 x 5 1/4
Neutral cardstock layer 3 x 3 1/2
Sentiment and image stamp set
While this card wasn’t as many steps to stamp as the last one, this one also was a bit more involved than the first two. The color of the images and sentiment on this card were chosen to coordinate with the DSP.
These are all cards that you could quickly make to send to a loved one. Why not pull out some of those supplies you have on hand and create a quick card or two. Even better why not make 5 of each design (since that is the hardest part) and donate 4 to a local Ronald McDonald house, retirement center or shelter. If you do, let me know by commenting here with pictures of what you made and where you donated the cards!
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